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Internet Policy Review, 2019 Researchers in psychology have long known that preferences are constructed in the decision-making process, influenced by choice environments that trigger unconscious biases and heuristics.
Jacquelyn Burkell, Priscilla M. Regan
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The Effects of Unsubstantiated Claims of Voter Fraud on Confidence in Elections
Journal of Experimental Political Science, 2021 Political elites sometimes seek to delegitimize election results using unsubstantiated claims of fraud. Most recently, Donald Trump sought to overturn his loss in the 2020 US presidential election by falsely alleging widespread fraud.
Nicolas Berlinski +7 more
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The COVID-19 pandemic’s effects on voter turnout
European Journal of Political Economy, 2021 The COVID-19 pandemic has increased the risk of participating in public events, among them elections. We assess whether the voter turnout in the 2020 local government elections in Italy was affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Matteo Picchio, Raffaella Santolini
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Is the Voter Model a Model for Voters? [PDF]
Physical Review Letters, 2014 The voter model has been studied extensively as a paradigmatic opinion dynamics' model. However, its ability for modeling real opinion dynamics has not been addressed. We introduce a noisy voter model (accounting for social influence) with agents' recurrent mobility (as a proxy for social context), where the spatial and population diversity are taken ...
Fernández-Gracia, Juan +4 more
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Are knowledgeable voters better voters? [PDF]
Politics, Philosophy & Economics, 2022 It is widely believed that democracies require knowledgeable citizens to function well. But the most politically knowledgeable individuals tend to be the most partisan and the strength of partisan identity tends to corrupt political thinking. This creates a conundrum.
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Political Behavior, 2021 Despite decades of research, there is no consensus as to the core correlates of national-level voter turnout. We argue that this is, in part, due to the lack of comprehensive, systematic empirical analysis. This paper conducts such an analysis.
Richard W. Frank +1 more
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Mainstream Voters, Non-Voters and Populist Voters: What Sets Them Apart? [PDF]
Political Studies, 2021 Three different constituencies are becoming increasingly common across Western European electorates: mainstream voters, non-voters and populist voters. Despite their distinct behaviours in electoral politics, we have limited empirical knowledge about the characteristics that distinguish these three groups, given the typical underrepresentation of non ...
Cédric M Koch +2 more
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The role of elections in the political life of an independent state
Хабаршы. Заң сериясы, 2022 Following the Constitution of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Kazakhstan claims to be a democratic state; the people of Kazakhstan are the only source of state power; the people exercise state power directly and through their representatives.
A. Zh. Zharbolova +4 more
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The voter model with anti-voter bonds☆ [PDF]
Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincare (B) Probability and Statistics, 2005 zbMATH Open Web Interface contents unavailable due to conflicting licenses.
Gantert, Nina +2 more
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Examining false beliefs about voter fraud in the wake of the 2020 Presidential Election
, 2021 The 2020 U.S. Presidential Election saw an unprecedented number of false claims alleging election fraud and arguing that Donald Trump was the actual winner of the election. Here we report a survey exploring belief in these false claims that was conducted
Gordon Pennycook, David G. Rand
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